So having recovered from a very busy Bluescreen back in May, we are now back and raring to go with another Bluescreen on Wednesday July 23rd! So come join us!

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Thanks all

Bluescreen HQ July 2014

A belated Happy New Year to you all, from us here at Bluescreen HQ!

We will be making an announcement soon on which film we have selected to be included in the 70minute Film for The Film That Buys The Cinema Project. We have had a number of entries and it wont be an easy decision to make as, not surprisingly, the quality of the films are of a very high standard. We will let you know soon.

And we have our 1st event of the year coming up at The Cube in just 2 weeks! Looking forward to seeing some more of your amazing films, you never seem to let us down! Join up to our Facebook Event here.... https://www.facebook.com/events/579095082164810/?ref=22 And please feel free to share with any other interested parties. Will be great to start the year off with a packed Bluescreen..  

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Bluescreen

Wow! Thanks Bristol for another evening of great short films last night! And here’s what we screened...

Cube Orchestra rescore: Earthen  – Tom Swindell  (2008)  - (16mins)
Black Cab To Rehab – Adam Richards & Rowdy - (4mins)
Higher Channels/One Man/Total Immortal – Benji  - (4mins)
Return to Sendai – G Slater ( 12mins)
Into The Light – Declan Smith (7.07mins)
Escalation – Catarina Oliveira – (11mins)
Land of Dreams (Transpersonals promo) – Piski Films (6.34mins)
The End – Santo (10mins)
Dog End – Santo (3.30mins)
The End Point of a Circle – D Wade & R Wickings ( 13mins)
Untitled Short Film – Lukas (5mins)
Rainbow – Muscat/Southsection (4mins)
Flight of the Fly – Muscat/Southsection (4mins)

Apologies to Jammy who brought in My Farewell Ride and we couldnt get it to play; bring another copy in on dvd and we will screen it next time.

We are now off to our Bluescreen bunker to compile our yearly Bluescreen DVD compilation, so the next Bluescreen will be with you in July. See you all then and thanks all for coming down, we all enjoyed it, hope you did too :)

Films Screened in March @ Bluescreen
It is not a little humbling and also just so fabulous that Bristol filmmakers can provide over an hour and a half of thought provoking and entertaining films just two months after the last Bluescreen.

Huge thank you to all who came tonight. It was a total treat. You brought us/ we saw five absorbing and interesting documentaries, a beautiful and haunting animation of a folk tale that had a stronger message, a compelling music video and an unsettling and intriguing drama.

Below are the list of films. Filmmakers if you have your film on Vimeo or Youtube please do email us the link for us to be able to post your film on our page in future.

Many many thanks to you all for coming filmmakers and viewers alike – and to the fabulous Cube staff volunteers who made it all happen.

The films:
Andrew Williams Probing the west country. 8 minutes. (Documentary)
Dominic Wade. Decks Dance Videotape. 13.5 Minutes. (Documentary)
Piskie Films. Piper of Hameln. 13 minutes. (Animation)
Fabian Martin. A way of life. 17 minutes. (Documentary)
Fabian Martin. War Face. 9 minutes. (Music film).
Vivi Insightful donation. 20.00 (Documentary).
Santo. The End. 9minutes. (Drama).
Molly Gibney. Frog in the Water. 8 minutes. (Documentary).


Looking forward to seeing you all on May 15th.

Films Screened on January 16th

Thanks to everyone who came along to The Cube on Wednesday, particularly on such a cold night! And what fantastic films too!

So here’s what we screened…

The Cube Orchestra rescored The Cardboard Orchestra by Scott Buchanan Barden (2010).

Then we screened..
La Perida del juicio – Maria Manero
Docobanksy – Docobanksy
A Brief Comedy of Polarisation – Adam Bell
Two Detectives – Tom Betts
Exile – Adam Petruczok
Munbefenaat – Piski Films
Notorious War by Wave N400 – Pablo Mestres
Who Goes We? – Lisa Shuh

And from our 2009 Compilation, we screened..
Gordon Emmanuel - Atem
Tom Mansfield - Felix machines
Ben Dowden - Dub FX1 – Flow/Step
Tajinder Dhami - Alpha, Diagnostic, Hospitalised
Hywel George - The life and life of Horace
Andy Sowerby - Tulips
Ben Dowden - Dance Film 3
Dylan Radclyffe - Doug Tabbard, Human Curler

And the film compilation screening in the lounge was from 2005 …
The Ram Inn – Sebastian Nolan/Chris Bradford/James Atkinson
Rusty Road less Travelled – Woody James
Maja – Chris Barnett
A Royal Obsession - Dan Brown
Short Sharp Shock – Dee Kalakoti
Old Street – Jacob Parish
The Battle of Cable Street – Toby Trackman/Yoav Segal

Thanks again for bringing in your films. Looking forward to the next Bluescreen, which is March 27th. See you all again then.

On Wednesday night at Bluescreen we screened a total of 12 films with a running time of approx. 100 minutes. Some regular contributors and some first time contributors entered the dark cube on a stunningly hot and sunny evening to show their films. The range was broad from Art film, documentary to comedy and drama. Also we were privileged to see some special effects that ranged from the distinctly fishy, thanks to Sam Iles, to the head scratchingly complex thanks to Naren WIlks. We were also treated to some rather fabulous music and some sparkling cinematography too. Thank you all for bringing and showing your films.

We screened:
1 Selfs portrait – Sally Lifely. 4 min 13sec.
2 3rd floor 6h door – Laura Perez. 18 min
3 The yellow tie – Film School Bristol (Ian Pirrie, Lara Perez, Emma Shannon, Niamh Farrelly, Bicky Henriques, Bianca Munoz). 3 min.
4 Burn out – Director, DOP, Editor Jack Offord; Written by Jack Offord and Lorraine Blumenthal; Actor Lorraine Blumenthal. 1 min 30 sec.
5 Lyrebird soup – Director Naren Wilks; Actors Cameron Miller, Brian Elllowy, Scored by Minima, Set construction Shaun Luker. 6 min.
6 Dream – Director Sam Iles; Actors Fred Iles, Peter Harris, Duncan Bounds. 6 min. 33 sec.
7 Chess man – James Matthews Amattttama 8 min.
8 Scared - Wayne Lee. 18 min.
9 Burned out – Film School Bristol. Director Ian Pirrie; Starring Angus Brown, Matthew McGill, Raphael Duncan. 10 min.
10 Square pianos – Piski films. 7 min 49.
11 Esso man – Director Diana Taylor; Poem Rosemary Dunn. 1 min 28.
12 The Pitch – Director Hannah Petts; Asst Director Lewis Rogers; Sound Chris Worth; Editor, camera and cinematography; Actors Marley Hamilton, Chris Foster, Iain Gorrie, Darren Thompson, Andrew Wilkinson, Lewis Rogers. 15 Min.

Bluescreen is back at The Cube September 19th when we are teaming up with the ENCOUNTERS film festival at the Watershed. It’s likely to be a busy night. We’ll screen up to 180 minutes of short films. Arrive early to avoid disappointment, as films that arrive after we have filled up our time slot cannot be shown.

We compile a DVD of films every year that are suitable for festival screenings. We just finished the 2011-12 DVD and we’ll be showing this at the Supernormal festival August 10th and 11th 2012.

Thanks all for coming and thanks again for bringing in your films.

to edit.

Clifton to Easton - Diana Taylor (3 min 36)
Le francaise Episode 2, Sam Haire (3 min)
Chlorpromazine .The Doubles, Tom Hall and colleagues (10 min)
Cloned, Wayne Lee (20 min)
Wonderland, Laurie Wood (13 min)
Evil Day, Piskie Films  (7 min)
Keppie uppie, James Stokes and Joe Ryan (3 min)
Intensive Point Fight training, Rob Creet of AV8 Creative, (14 min)
Queen of the sky, Bruce D (9 min)
Martin Hall, The Interview (5 min)
Derien, Eric Boyd and Imogen Birdwell (4 min 30)

And apologies to:
Laura Perez, (No 3 6th Floor)
Kris Griffen  and Brad Powell (6 AM)
I’m with them productions (3:00 AM)
…whose films we tried to screen, but their DVDs just wouldn’t play.  But do bring along another copy to the next Bluescreen and we will screen them again then. 

Kriss Griffen and Brad Powell did eventually show their film on a laptop in the bar afterwards – but we hope he’ll bring it for another Blue screen night for us to see on the big screen.

Some of the films we showed were entries for the Bristol Encounters 0117 competition – in which a film had to be made in 0117 hours or less (6 AM and Keepie Uppie)  - the films will be shown at the MSHED They will be screened  - and judged!  - along with other entrants - as part of a celebratory event at the MSHED museum on Friday 24th June good luck to both of those films in the competition..

Martin Hall’s film ‘The interview’ was screened at the 2 Days Laughter Short Film Competition  festival in Margate and won two awards for acting and one for sound! Congratulations to him and his team.

Bluescreen is back at The Cube July 25th, and with some news of a few Festival screenings over the Summer!

Thanks again for another great Bluescreen!